Another way to ask the same question is, "Should social considerations be part of the design process?" Designers can have all sorts of intentions, whether purely aesthetic, ego-boosting, pragmatic, and/or to the benefit of people. I would guess that many designers are not ambitious/conscious enough to solve social problems with their work, even though that is the real impact of the spaces that we live in!
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It's definitely a facet of design that hasn't taken a stage in design discourse. A lot of it is just simple naivety but some architects aggressively block these discussions from mainstream practice. It's a lot of hard work and complicated debate. Hopefully more practitioners take on these challenges.
Thanks for the comment Brian!